Chen Hengke
Revived Chinese literati painting tradition
From 1902 to 1909 Chen Hengke studied in Japan, where he witnessed the indigenous culture being rejected in the pursuit of material advantages from the West. He was determined that China would not follow the same course. After his return from Japan, he taught at colleges in Nantong, Changsha, and Beijing, becoming an influential historian of the literati tradition and a leading painter and calligrapher in Beijing.